Run MS Publisher from VFP 1

[bpratl]

How would I go about running MS Publisher from a VFP application? I can run EXCEL and WORD without any problems but Publisher won't work for me.

 

[Mike Lewis]

If you just want to launch Publisher as a separate program, the easiest way is to use ShellExecute(). See "Introducing ShellExecute()" at

http://www.ml-consult.co.uk/foxst-26.htm

for an example.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[TamarGranor]

It appears that recent versions of Publisher are automation servers, so you should be able to instantiate it just as you do Excel or Word. Looks like:

oPub = CREATEOBJECT("Publisher.Application")

does the trick. Of course, the hard part is figuring out how to use the thing, but IntelliSense and the Object Browser should help you.

Tamar

 

[bpratl]

Unfortunately they are using Publisher 98 so Tamar's suggestion of

 oPub = CREATEOBJECT("Publisher.Application")

Did not work. I have not tried it with a later version.

Mike Lewis ShellExecute() API works great and solved the problem. Thanks for quick response.